Ultrasonic demonstration of fetal skeletal dysplasia. Case reports
Muller, L.M.; Cremin, B.J.
South African Medical Journal 67(6): 222-226
1985
ISSN/ISBN: 0256-9574 PMID: 3885435 Document Number: 246477
Reports on prenatal diagnosis in cases of skeletal dysplasia have mostly been in high-risk mothers with a suspect genetic background where the fetal lesion could probably be predetermined. Routine ultrasonographic appraisal of the fetal skeleton when dysplasia is not initially suspected, was used and the experience of the lethal forms of this condition were related. During the 4-yr period 1981-1984, 6 cases of skeletal dysplasia, including thanatophoric dysplasia, achondrogenesis, the Ellis-van Creveld syndrome (chondro-ectodermal dysplasia) and osteogenesis imperfecta, were detected; the ultrasonographic findings are discussed.